Re: [Dbpedia-discussion] Using DBpedia resources as skos:Concepts?

hi,

here's my two cents.

0. i think the question implies (psycho lingually) that mrs. obama
   IS really a foaf:Person. i think she's (also) DESCRIBED as a foaf:Person.. 
1. describing what really is, is hard enough - triple so with triples.   
2. it depends on who's looking at the data.
   2.1. i personally dont't consider mrs. obama to be a
        - a foaf:Person
        - a foaf:Agent
        - a geo:SpatialThing
        - a skos:Concept or whatever class, most certainly not a poor owl:Thing.        
   2.2. a reasoner with limited access to data, say your's and dbpedia would 
        just find that this resource has two types, weather sensefull or not.
   2.3  a reasoner (more an intelligent agent) with access to all data, would
        most certainly find a triple somewhere, that states that a skos:Concept
        disjoints with a foaf:Person and conclude that humans (hm.. they're all
        owl:Things... tomorrow i use them as duracell:batteries..) are a quite contraditory breed.
3. consindering normal daily speaking reveals that asserting facts with owl has it's weaknesses and
   that a reasoner who sees these triple must be humanly intelligent.
   - mrs obama is a woman
   - mrs obama is the first lady
   - what mrs. obama means to me, is that .... (so she's an abstract concept)
   - yesterday i saw mrs. obama playing football (soccer)
   - my mother is a woman

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Cyganiak" <richard@cyganiak.de>
To: dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, "SKOS" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Cc: "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ihmc.us>
Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 1:56:56 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna
Subject: [Dbpedia-discussion] Using DBpedia resources as skos:Concepts?

Hi,

I want to get some broader feedback and opinion on this question.

There is a use case where an external dataset is modelled in SKOS, and  
we want to map it to DBpedia. Something like:

<http://mydataset/433256>
     a skos:Concept;
     owl:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Michelle_Obama>;
     .

I've used owl:sameAs here. Now the problem is that my:433256 is a  
skos:Concept, while dbp:Michelle_Obama is a foaf:Person. I wonder  
wether that's a problem. I can't see any immediate contradiction  
arising from that, but I'm uncertain.

Another option would be to use skos:closeMatch or skos:exactMatch, but  
these are intended for use between skos:Concepts, while I'm trying to  
connect a skos:Concept to a foaf:Person.

The main question, I guess, is wether people in the DBpedia project  
would consider the assertion

     <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Michelle_Obama> a skos:Concept .

to be acceptable or erroneous, or wether SKOS folks tell me that  
skos:Concept is obviously disjoint from foaf:Person.

I know that this is a complex issue, so I'm not really looking for a  
"right" or "wrong" answer. I'm more interested in getting all the pros  
and cons and pitfalls and caveats on the table, so please, if you have  
any opinion on the issue, I want to hear it.

I'm cc'ing Pat Hayes, because he said he's interested in that kind of  
question.

All the best and thanks for your time,
Richard




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